Forgery vs Concoction - What's the difference?

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Forgery is a related term of concoction.

As nouns the difference between forgery and concoction

is that forgery is the act of forging metal into shape while concoction is (obsolete) digestion (of food etc).

forgery

English

(wikipedia forgery)

Noun

(forgeries)

The act of forging metal into shape.

The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.

*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery —with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.

(lb) An invention, creation.

Synonyms

* counterfeit * fake

Derived terms

* forger

concoction

English

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Digestion (of food etc.).

*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.260:

[Sorrow] hinders concoction , refrigerates the heart, takes away stomach, colour, and sleep; thickens the blood […].

The preparing of a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients.

A mixture prepared in such a way.

Something made-up, an invention.

(obsolete, figurative) The act of digesting in the mind; rumination.

(John Donne)

(obsolete, medicine) Abatement of a morbid process, such as fever, and return to a normal condition.

(obsolete) The act of perfecting or maturing.

(Francis Bacon)